38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)

Recall This Book - Podcast autorstwa Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). Learn how self-help went from its Victorian roots (worship greatness!) to the ingratiating unctuous style prescribed by the other-directed Dale Carnegie (everyone loves the sound of their own name) before arriving at the “neo-stoical” self-help gurus … Continue reading "38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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